Small Claims Court Process Service

Process Service:

Process service is a procedure in which small claim courts or federal body serves legal notice to the defendant or any person responsible, through process server. It involves serving the legal documents such as summons, subpoenas, writs, complaints and other judicial documents to the person on whom the creditor files the case.

Now, the person who helps the individual to file process service case against the person responsible is known as process server. A process server has in depth knowledge about process servicing and is well acquainted with the state laws. Hence, before opting for process servicing a person needs to seek help of a professional process server.

It is also equally important to select an ideal process server to get the work done. An ideal process server works in accord with the state’s legislation. It involves serving the documents personally to the accused or sub serving the notice to other individuals in a business or family circle.

After the delivery of the documents, the process server needs to deliver the proof to court that he had served the documents to the accused. This is an affidavit document, called as POS (proof of service) and needs a notary’s sign over it. 

Process service is useful particularly, when an individual is serving in prison. In this case, a filing party has to serve the notice through service process only, because the small court claim asks for the signature of inmate on proof of document. Now, for that purpose the party who files the case first has to obtain the inmate number.

They can acquire it by calling up the jailer by providing the SSN (Social security number) of convict.

Process Service In Different States:

A few states in the United States require a licensed process server practitioner. Such states include Florida, Illinois, Oklahoma, Nevada, Alaska, Washington and Montana. There are some states, which require process server to possess a license of particular region only to carry out practice.

Hence, people need to check out all these details by visiting their state’s process service website. Some states in the United States forbid the delivery of process service documents on Sunday, public holidays or during the election days. Those states are Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Michigan, and Maine.

However, few states may allow the delivery of documents under certain circumstances such as, when the process service becomes consistent to small claim court’s orders. People can refer to www.onlinejudgmentcollection.com and acquire more information on judgment related questions.

Lance Casey from Cal-State Financial is a Judgment Recovery Specialist.